He posts on average 3 times a month* and there's always some interesting
content. Not really IDM but not frequent enough or dumb enough to annoy me.
*I haven't deleted an e-mail from IDM in a decade so I have my own archive
of the list to search.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 12:49 PM Brian Behlendorf <brian@behlendorf.com>
wrote:
quoted 90 lines Yes - typically, we've allowed posts from Radio Web MACBA to the list as
>
> Yes - typically, we've allowed posts from Radio Web MACBA to the list as
> they usually seemed related to electronic music in some way. Similarly
> with Galactic Travels and other such messages. The event described here
> sounds fascinating and I'd try to see it if I were in Barcelona, but it
> does feel quite off-topic. I don't know who's behind the MACBA email
> alias cc'd here, but I'd ask that they consider the audience next time
> they post, and make sure that what they're posting is relevant. Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, nicholas.piet33@gmail.com wrote:
> > I was extremely confused when I saw this in my inbox.
> >
> > Hm
> >
> > * Nick
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Radio Web MACBA <rwm2008@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 21:25
> > To: idm list <idm@hyperreal.org>
> > Subject: New podcast: FAKA alk about performing masculinity and
> self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism, South African pop culture
> in the 90s and racialised queer bodies
> >
> >
> >
> > New podcast: Desire Marea and Fela Gucci (aka FAKA) talk about
> performing masculinity and self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism,
> South African pop culture in the 90s, racialised queer bodies,
> > music as a medium and dealing with contradictions
> >
> >
> >
> > Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/faka/capsula
> >
> >
> >
> > Desire Marea and Fela Gucci are the duo behind FAKA, a cultural platform
> from the heart of South Africa whose primary goal is to create alternative
> representations of black queer identity. Given that
> > the notion of gender is heavily influenced by Western culture, FAKA
> defend that African identities in general are queer, because they don't
> conform to the same patterns.
> >
> > FAKA's artistic activism is modelled on the anti-apartheid cultural
> movement, but also employs strategies from advertising and pop culture.
> Although the duo work with all kinds of media (texts,
> > photography, performance...), they mainly use music, drawing on sources
> ranging from queer hip hop (Mikky Blanco, Lelf, House of Ladosha...) to
> nineties South African afropop (Branda Fassie, Boom
> > Shaka...) and local genres such as gqom.
> >
> > Out of these influences, FAKA generate highly complex cultural products
> in which voguing intersects South African cruising spots, reality shows,
> gender theory, and gospel hymns. Aside from their
> > capacity to absorb and mix cultural codes from very different fields,
> FAKA manage to be combative without sacrificing vulnerability in their
> fight for civil rights.
> >
> > Desire Marea and Fela Gucci talk about performing masculinity and
> self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism, South African pop culture
> in the 90s, racialised queer bodies, music as a medium and
> > dealing with contradictions.
> >
> > Timeline
> > 03:30 Queer Africa
> > 04:27 Introductions
> > 10:35 Family matters
> > 14:13 Missions
> > 17:11 Homophobia and misogyny in South Africa
> > 21:19 Influences
> > 24:18 Language matters
> > 25:31 Kwaito
> > 27:55 Uyang'khumbula
> > 29:23 South African pop culture in the 90s
> > 31:07 Brenda Fassie
> > 31:42 Gqom
> > 36:40 The Factory
> > 44:05 The body as a medium
> > 49:36 Contradictions
> >
> >
> >
> > E/N/J/O/Y
> >
> >
> >